HIGH TREES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Registered charity 1079581 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HIGH TREES CDT

High Trees is Community Development Trust based in Tulse Hill, operating across Lambeth and south London. We connect with people and communities to strengthen skills and build stronger voices, delivering services in Community Education and Training, Employment and Careers Support, Children Young People and Families and Social Action.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity ended the year with a net deficit of £45,497 and is currently using its reserves to ensure the continuation of essential services due to underfunding challenges. The trustees report that the financial situation is being tightly monitored and that services could be reduced if necessary, but are currently maintained. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,233,722, which is below its stated policy target of 9 months' running costs (£1,741,811).

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Green & Peter (UK) Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~7.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (96% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.8% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (27/08/2025) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Delroy Anthony Corinaldi
• Ewa Pawliczko
• Julie-Ann Say
• OLUSINA TAIWO
• Shazia Yamin
• TERENCE DAVID CURTIS

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout London

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CITY OF TREES TRUST.

• CITY OF TREES TRUST income £3.6m
• COMMUNITY FOREST TRUST income £8.9m
• TREES FOR CITIES income £5.4m
• WORKTREE income £118k
• THE MUSTARD TREE FOUNDATION (READING) income £298k
• THE MOSS SIDE AND HULME COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST income £356k

Side by side with its peers

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